ArticleOriginal scientific text

Title

Structure of the set of all minimal total dominating functions of some classes of graphs

Authors 1, 2

Affiliations

  1. Department of Mathematics, N.S.S College, Pandalam - 689 501, India
  2. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Victoria, BC, Canada

Abstract

In this paper we study some of the structural properties of the set of all minimal total dominating functions (_T) of cycles and paths and introduce the idea of function reducible graphs and function separable graphs. It is proved that a function reducible graph is a function separable graph. We shall also see how the idea of function reducibility is used to study the structure of _T(G) for some classes of graphs.

Keywords

minimal total dominating functions (MTDFs), convex combination of MTDFs, basic minimal total dominating functions (BMTDFs), simplex, polytope, simplicial complex, function separable graphs, function reducible graphs

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Pages:
407-423
Main language of publication
English
Received
2009-02-19
Accepted
2009-09-01
Published
2010
Exact and natural sciences